Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 28th Mar 2005 19:49 UTC
I decided to write this review to provide a quick inside to the new Linspire 5.0 released on March 15th, 2005. The review will determine the use of Linspire 5.0 in a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Environment. The download was free for me since I'm a current CNR subscriber. UPDATE: Another Linspire review, and the Linspire 5.0 Live CD is now available for free download.
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I am not understanding what you mean by APT being fixed in Linspire. Apt works totaly fine in Linspire. All they do is comment out the Debian sites from the APT sources file. If you MUST use APT then you just go in and uncomment the sites.
The reason why they do this (And Xandros does basicly the same thing) is so that you don't by mistake install applications that may conflict with changes that Linspire made to their Debian base. CNR applications are tested and sometimes changed or the older version is used so that it will work properly.
But I used to use apt all the time on "Lindows" 4 and 4.5 before CNR got more apps. There used to be a site called lindowsdownloads.com that used to put up aps like firefox (Firebird at the time) that they had not yet added to CNR.
I just don't get why people always seem to put Linspire down with information that is ether old, not true or made up?